2015-11-27

Trial access to Artemis Literary Sources by Gale @http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/clelu?db=GLS until December 2, 2015. "An integrated research experience, Artemis Literary Sources brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways. No other publisher offers this unmatched combination of uniquely rich literary content, dependable metadata, and intuitive subject indexing..."

2015-05-01

2015-04-19

SUMMER GRANT TO JAPAN: The partner institution of the Department of English Applied Linguistics, Meisei University, is sponsoring a two-week stay in Japan, near Tokyo, for one BA, MA or OTAK student to teach English as member of an international student-teacher team to young Japanese participants of the Meisei Summer School Project from July 29 to August 11, 2015. Program: Week One: Preparation for the program (materials development and teaching practice); Week Two: Teaching children. accommodation and meals will be provided, and Meisei will also refund the price of the flight ticket. REQUIREMENTS (IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE): - Excellent English - Completed Applied Linguistics seminar course (BBN-ANG 262) - Experience in working in a team - Interest in teaching English - With all other things being equal, applicants with some knowledge of Japanese will be preferred. SUBMIT YOUR LETTER OF APPLICATION, C.V., AND TWO REFERENCES TO: The Department of English Applied Linguistics Room 306. Application Deadline: 2 p.m., May 5, 2015 Interviews will be scheduled for the second week of May 2015.

2015-04-13

Canadian poets in SEAS

The Canadian Studies Centre at the School of English and American Studies at ELTE is pleased to invite you to a presentation entitled MADE IN CANADA by poets Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie Souaid.

2014-10-24

In accordance with the “Agreement on Academic Cooperation and Exchange” between the Department of English Applied Linguistics (DEAL) at the School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University and the International Studies Center at Meisei University, Japan, a post-graduate of Eötvös Loránd University is invited as a guest lecturer to teach English at the International Studies Center of Meisei University.

2014-10-23

First Variation Workshop (in Hungarian) organised by the OTKA "Variation in Phonology" Research Group:

2014-10-22

The talk revisits the most important arguments of Prof. Claeys’s latest book, a comprehensive reassessment of J. S. Mill’s career focusing on his relationship to paternalism, interventionism and feminism.

2. "Dystopia: For Dummies" -- Friday, 7th Nov 10:30- 12:00, R423

Utopia meets dystopia: a survey of the concepts of utopia, dystopia and totalitarianism. Utopia and dystopia beyond their literary aspects.

2014-10-07

Contemporary British novelist Tibor Fischer will be visiting DES on the occasion of the publication of Good to Be 56: Writings in Honour of Tibor Fischer's Birthdays, a volume of student essays written on his work.

Time: Wednesday, 15th October, 2-3.30 p.m.

Venue: Gólyavár A

Program:

Opening address

Celebration of authors of essays, former SEAS students

Conversation with Tibor Fischer on his work - questions are welcome

Tibor Fischer reading from his work

The volume of essays will be available from L'Harmattan, the publisher, at a 20% discount at the event.

The event is scheduled as part of the Introduction to Literature and the Contemporary British Literature lecture series, and is open to the public.

2014-05-11

The Department of English Linguistics (ELTE) is offering three teaching assistantships from September 2014 to July 2015. Read more…

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2014-05-07

Trial access to ProQuest databases Early English Books Online, Dissertations and Theses A&I, Ebrary is available @ELTE network or remotely (via VPN or stunnel) until June 4, 2014. Demonstration session (in Hungarian) will be offered at 4 pm on Thursday, May 13, 2014 @Kari Olvasóterem. Members of academic staff and students are ALL WELCOME! Registration is required. Information on how to register is available in ProQuest meghívó.doc

2013-09-16

2013-06-26

2013-06-20

"Stunned into Uncertainty": Young Researchers' Conference on Julian Barnes's Fiction

This conference serves as an opportunity for young researchers (predominantly the students of the Modern English and American Literature PhD Programme) to share their findings, ideas and critical opinion on the fiction of contemporary British author Julian Barnes. Everyone is welcome to join the discussions.

2013-04-10

Come and celebrate SEAS students who participated in OTDK Debrecen/Kaposvár this year at an informal gathering with students, supervisors, reviewers, coordinators and all who have supported or would like to cheer the students! Time: 15:30-17:00, Wednesday, 17 April, 2013; Venue: R5 Room 414; Drinks: DES has offered some; Food: please bring along whatever you think appropriate. All welcome! SEAS honours at the 2013 Debrecen/Kaposvár OTDK conference

2012-11-02

Dear BA students, three lectures have to be cancelled on 6 and 7 November, due to conflicts with Faculty events; they are: BBN-FLN-101 introduction to linguistics, Nádasdy, Tue 10; BBN-AME-121 Br and Am political systems, Lojkó, Wed 12; and BBN-ANG-271 cultural studies, Gall, Tue 12; sorry for the inconvenience.

2012-11-02

Student Research Conference - Department of English Studies, 14:30-16:30 on 6 November 2012, R443 and R439, Conference Programme

2012-10-31

Celebrating the Bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, DES is pleased to announce a public lecture, "Dickens: The Planet Dick," by Professor Michael Hollington on Wednesday, 7th November 2012 at 2 pm in B 172, that is, the Lecture Theatre in Building B.

2011-10-20

Literature Online (LION) Reference Edition database is available for trial until December 16, 2011.

Literature Online: the home of literature and criticism was added to the trial until December 16, 2011!

Literature Online is the leading online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. It is a fully integrated service that combines the texts of over 350,000 works of literature with huge resources of criticism and reference. When combined with the MLA International Bibliography add-on module, Literature Online is the only resource which offers single-point searching of the two leading literary indexes, MLA and ABELL, linked to a growing collection of 150 full-text literary journals. They're the perfect complement.

2011-10-17

on October 24th (Monday), at 11:30 , in room 414 Julie Orringer will introduce her first novel, The Invisible Bridge. The story takes you back to Budapest and Paris in 1937, includes the events of 1956, and moves to America.The author is partially of Hungarian origin, the Hungarian translation of the novel is published by Libri.http://www.julieorringer.com/theinvisiblebridge.html

2011-10-15

Canada in Eight Tongues international conference at SEAS to be held on October 21–22 in Rm R 021. Opening at 2 pm on October 21 in Rm R 021 by S.E. Tamara Guttman, Ambassador of Canada, and Dr. Tamás Dezső, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, ELTE. Keynote Lecture by Prof. David Staines (University of Ottawa), Writing the First History of Canadian Fiction: A Canadian Perspective. Conference Program here. All welcome!

2011-09-13

2011-09-09

NEW library hours as of September 12, 2011: Mon., Tue., Thu. 9.00-16.00, Wed. 12.00-18.00, Fri. 9.00-14.00 (changes are in red). Library staff has been reduced: István Szecskó has left SEAS, while Teodóra Kulcsár-Tabajdi is on maternity leave. Posted by Nóra Deák

2011-06-17

2011-06-16

2011-06-14

Christopher Ryan (DELP) has been elected TUTOR OF THE AUTUMN TERM (of the 2010–2011 academic year) by the BTK student association (HÖK) on the basis of student feedback (OMHV) results. Congratulations to Christopher — we are very proud of him.

2011-03-28

2011-03-24

2011-03-23

2011-03-15

Application starts for the BA English in Business Specialisation Module. You can read the details here. Application ends 14 April, 2011.

2011-02-25

SEASWiki Tutorial and Q&A session: we will hold a brief intro to the SEASWiki site (for contributors and other colleagues planning to be one) on 8 March, Tuesday, at 2pm (probably) in R326. If interested please write to szigetvariATelteDOThu.

2011-01-27

2011-01-12 update for 2010-12-16

ELTE is migrating to a new integrated library system called Aleph500 during January/February 2011. The internet access to the union catalogue of ELTE will be available, but cataloguing won't be available for a month and a half, while and circulation will be down for about 2 weeks (January 29–February 13, 2011). No checkin, checkout, and library card clearance for final exams and other cases (international students, students exiting their majors) will be possible.

The library will be closed during this period. Regular service is scheduled to resume on Monday, February 14, 2011. Posted by Nóra Deák

2010-10-05

2010-09-17

2010-09-16

New Library Rules apply in the SEAS Library, beginning September 13, 2010. The Reading Room can only be used with a valid Library or Visitor card, which must be left at the Circulation Desk during the library use. The library homepage moved to the caesar webserver, the new address is http://seaslib.elte.hu

2010-05-27

2010-05-17

2010-05-05

DEAL'S STUDENTS' SCHOLARLY CIRCLES HAD A LIVELY, THOUGHT-PROVOKING, ENGAGING PAPER PRESENTATION EVENT. THE OFFICIAL RESULTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

THE WINNER OF THE SPRING 2010 ENGLISH APPLIED LINGUISTICS COMPETITION

SASSINÉ RIFFER ZSUZSANNA: Researching the dynamics of L2 motivation among English major students

CONGRATULATIONS ON HER GREAT PAPER! SHE CAN CONTINUE IN THE NATIONAL ROUND. MANY THANKS TO HER SUPERVISORS EDWARDS MELINDA AND FRANK PRESCOTT.

THE OTHER TWO REALLY FINE TALKS WERE GIVEN BY JUHÁSZ DÁVID AND ÁSVÁNYI GERGELY, TO WHOM MANY THANKS FOR GIVING THE AUDIENCE SOME FURTHER INSIGHT INTO THE CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS AND INTO THE USE OF ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA. MANY THANKS TO THEIR SUPERVISORS TAMÁSI GERGELY AND ILLÉS ÉVA, RESPECTIVELY.

AS ALL THE CANDIDATES ARE BA STUDENTS, WE WISH TO SEE THEM CONTINUE TO DO THEIR MA'S WITH US , TOO.

MANY THANKS TO THE STUDENT AUDIENCE AND, OF COURSE, TO THE JURY INCLUDING CSIZÉR KATA, WHO KINDLY HELPED US OUT WITH HER EXPERT ADVICE.

2010-04-20

Free, accredited intercultural and Moodle (ICT) training workshops for teachers.icEurope intercultural and Moodle (ICT) teacher training workshops within the framework of a multilateral Comenius project at the Department of English Language Pedagogy. Four free 15-credit workshops to be held at DELP in June. More information can be found here and pre-registration can be sent to Lázár Ildikó <ildikoDOTlazarATgmailDOTcom>.